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The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada for Tuesday, July 14
The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 1:05 p.m. on July 14, 2020: There are 108,377 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 56,730 confirmed (including 5,633 deaths, 26,025 resol...
Jul 14, 2020

Family of Canadian child stuck in Syria taking government to court
OTTAWA - The case of a five-year-old Canadian girl stuck in Syria appears to be headed to court as her family escalates efforts to bring her to Canada. The girl known publicly as Amira was found on th...
Jul 14, 2020

Feds should have put $900M into Canada Summer Jobs program: Opposition
OTTAWA - Federal opposition parties are demanding to know why the Liberal government created a $900-million program to help students find volunteer positions rather than putting the money into an exis...
Jul 14, 2020

Ex-PQ leader Andre Boisclair pleads not guilty to two sexual assault charges
MONTREAL - Former Parti Quebecois leader Andre Boisclair has pleaded not guilty on two counts of sexual assault. The ex-politician was not in court today but was represented by his lawyer. Boiscl...
Jul 14, 2020

Draisaitl, MacKinnon and Panarin named Ted Lindsay Award finalists
TORONTO - Edmonton Oilers forward Leon Draisaitl, Colorado Avalanche forward Nathan MacKinnon and New York Rangers forward Artemi Panarin are the finalists for the 2019-20 Ted Lindsay Award. The award...
Jul 14, 2020

Senators call for changes to COVID-19 aid and more transparency on spending
OTTAWA - The Senate's finance committee says the Trudeau Liberals need to tell people very soon what they will do for those who max out a key federal COVID-19 benefit in the fall without jobs&nbs...
Jul 14, 2020

Column: What's in a name? Stubborn Snyder about to find out
Try to think of a more deserving guy in all of sports than Dan Snyder to get his name-change plans caught in a vise. Go ahead, we'll wait. In the meantime, let's all savour this quote from the owner o...
Jul 14, 2020

Province extends temporary authorization allowing liquor selling establishments to sell liquor for off-site consumption
VICTORIA-The Province is extending the temporary authorization that allows food-primary and liquor-primary licensees to sell and deliver sealed, packaged liquor products along with the purchase of a m...
Jul 14, 2020

US carries out the 1st federal execution in nearly 2 decades
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. - The federal government on Tuesday carried out its first execution in almost two decades, killing by lethal injection a man convicted of murdering an Arkansas family in a 1990s plot...
Jul 14, 2020

TYH: Do you use cotton swabs to clean your ear? Here's why you shouldn't
I can't be the only one that uses a Q-tip to clean my ear. Actually, I know I am not the only one. And every time I do it there's a little voice in my head that says "you shouldn't be doing this Veron...
Jul 14, 2020